I shipped MoneyCoach for iPhone Duo on day one without ever holding one. 20 days, almost no sleep, mostly the simulator. Here's how that went 馃У
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2/ The idea: your bank accounts as cards in a 3D leather wallet that opens and closes with the hinge. Built in RealityKit.
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3/ The hard part is that you can't feel a hinge in a simulator. So I tuned the wallet angle by angle, from closed to flat, and kept asking "would this feel right in my hand?"
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4/ Then came the light and the gyro. Tilt it and the leather catches the light. It's a small thing, but it's what makes it feel like an object and not a screen.
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5/ 12 years into building MoneyCoach, and this was the most fun I've had with it. If you're waiting for a device to ship your Duo version: don't. Ship now, the hardware catches up.

Oct 26, 2026 路 8:18 AM UTC

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